All right, I may have imagined the latter, but I believe I am closer to the true meaning of the word than all the politicians and sham social commentators using it to mean a few heads being cracked and six months in the chokey all round.

Ever since British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads scored with their 1979 single Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) -- which celebrated people like Elvis and the Marx Brothers and pleasures like Ploughman's sandwiches (cheddar cheese and a pickle) and "coming out of chokey" (solitary confinement) -- inquiring minds have wondered about parts one and two.